Sentences with phrase «telescope mounted»

SOFIA is a 747 with a custom hatch in the back and a telescope mounted inside, allowing us to observe from 40,000 feet.

Their idea is to first detect the debris with a telescope mounted on the outside of the ISS, and then if they find something, they'll zap it with powerful lasers.

Legislators also maintained support for an infrared telescope mounted on a Boeing 747, a project that the White House had proposed grounding.

One big winner at NASA is the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), a telescope mounted on a Boeing 747 jet.

They placed small (1 to 2 feet wide) starshades midway between a telescope mounted on a tripod and five light sources (LEDs) lined up 2 kilometers away.

Obviously, because it's telescope mounted, it gives you an amazing view of the stars, moon, and everything else you see in the night sky.

There are basically two types of telescope mounts: Altazimuth mounts and Equatorial mounts.

It's definitely a bit harder to use but for astrophotography this type of telescope mount is the best choice.

This is the simplest telescope mount design.

A telescope mount needs computer control for pinpoint tracking.

Taking observations from twin telescopes mounted on the noses of the planes, Caspi will capture the clearest images of the Sun's outer atmosphere — the corona — to date and the first - ever thermal images of Mercury, revealing how temperature varies across the planet's surface.

«A Sidewalk Astronomer» is the story of John Dobson, an 89 - year old monk - turned - scientist who revolutionized astronomy with the invention of the Dobsonian telescope mount, which made telescopes accessible to the public on every continent.

Not exact matches

(a rifle having at least 2 of: folding or telescoping stocks, pistol grip, bayonet mount, flash suppressor or threaded barrel for one, barrel attached grenade launcher.

The Orion 52031 is a good camera for astrophotography if you're looking for one that mounts to your telescope.

We also found so awesome cameras that mount inside your telescope to capture things close up.

Celestron has a really awesome camera that mounts into your telescope and lets you take some pretty awesome pictures.

Lastly, we recommend it because of the smart «quick release» tripod mount that makes it very easy to set up and break down the telescope (especially when it's dark).

After planting a starshade atop a small mountain, they would have mounted a telescope in a truckbed and waited for the star to duck behind the shade.

Your telescope's mount is extremely important because it stabilizes your view, making it possible for you to see sharp, shake - free images of space.

If an amateur or survey telescope did spot a potentially dangerous asteroid, there would be no need to build bunkers or mount Armageddon - style rescue missions right away.

A dome encloses a 1 - meter telescope, one of six that make up the CHARA array on Mount Wilson in California.

Around the same time, at Georgia State University's Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA), astronomer Harold McAlister championed an interferometry machine combining the light from six separate telescopes on California's Mount Wilson.

The CHARA interferometer is an array of six telescopes on Mount Wilson in California, US, which can produce exceptionally sharp images.

The poet Alfred Noyes, who was at Mount Wilson on November 1, 1917, when the completed telescope first turned to the sky, later wrote of the scientists: «Where was the gambler that would stake so much, — / Time, patience, treasure, on a single throw?

Atop neighboring Mount Wilson, Edwin Hubble was using the most powerful astronomical tool in history, the 100 - inch Hooker telescope, to determine that the night sky was teeming with galaxies equal in size and magnitude to our own Milky Way, and that these galaxies appeared to be racing away from us, an indication of an expanding universe.

He persuaded Caltech to install an 18 - inch Schmidt telescope that became the first astronomical instrument on Mount Palomar, and soon national media were regularly keeping a running tab of how many «star suicides» his survey of the heavens had discovered and how bright they were: 400 to 600 million times as luminous as the sun.

On the evening of November 1, I joined many dozens of other astronomy enthusiasts to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 100 - inch Hooker telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory, about an hour drive from Pasadena, Calif..

They use 1 - meter telescopes on Mount Hamilton in California and on Cerro Las Campanas in Chile to follow up LIGO / Virgo alerts.

Paglen shot these photographs with a host of cameras and telescopes using a computer - guided mechanical mount for accurate «pointing», and to compensate for the rotation of Earth.

TUCSON, ARIZONA — Two cosmologies have collided on telescope - dense Mount Hopkins south of here — and the loser for now appears to be the Smithsonian Institution.

Scientists from Auspace and the Mount Stromlo Observatory, which designed the experiments carried out by the telescope, will bring back from Florida the magnetic tapes containing the data collected by the telescope.

[1] The team used data from the UVES spectrograph on ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile (to determine the properties of the star accurately), the Carnegie Planet Finder Spectrograph (PFS) at the 6.5 - metre Magellan II Telescope at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, the HIRES spectrograph mounted on the Keck 10 - metre telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii as well as extensive previous data from HARPS (the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher) at ESO's 3.6 - metre telescope in Chile (gathered through the M dwarf programme led by X. Bonfils and M. Mayor 2003 - 2010.

Built and tested at Fermilab, the camera is now mounted on the 4 - meter Victor M. Blanco telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in the Andes Mountains in Chile.

This camera is permanently mounted at the MPG / ESO 2.2 - metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory.

Telescope managers plan to build a new mount for the telescope that will straighten out the mirror.

«It wasn't an original idea,» says Angel, who credits George Ritchey, designer of the 60 - inch and 100 - inch telescopes on Mount Wilson at the turn of the century, with having first dreamed up such a mirror.

The two groups arrived at their disparate results using some of the same data, which was collected by HARPS, an instrument mounted on a 3.6 - metre telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile.

Vogt and Butler's team found the new planet by combining 119 star velocity measurements from HARPS with 122 measurements taken with a similar instrument called HIRES, which is mounted on the 10 - metre Keck 1 telescope in Hawaii.

The instrument is mounted on Unit Telescope 4 of the VLT, which is currently being converted into a fully adaptive telescope.

In the late 1980s astronomers at the Mount Graham National Observatory in Arizona faced opposition to a new telescope from squirrel - protecting environmentalists and from the San Carlos Apaches, who perform religious ceremonies on the mountain.

By contrast, the four - meter Mayall telescope a few blocks away weighs 375 tons because it has an equatorial mount aligned with Earth's axis of rotation.

Try a Dobsonian telescope, a reflector on a simple swivel mount.

Heinz and his colleagues quickly mounted a series of follow - up observations with the space - based Chandra and XMM - Newton telescopes to discover four bright rings of X-rays, like ripples in a cosmic pond, all around the neutron star at the heart of Circinus X-1.

There were also missions dedicated to astronomical observations, using the Astro payload of pallet - mounted telescopes.

The camera, mounted on a telescope at Caltech's Palomar Observatory near San Diego, succeeds the Palomar Transient Factory.

Following the initial discovery, two telescopes in southern Arizona did the heavy lifting in determining the distance and mass of the black hole: the 8.4 - meter Large Binocular Telescope, or LBT, on Mount Graham and the 6.5 - meter Multiple Mirror Telescope, or MMT, on Mount Hopkins.

Mount Wilson Observatory in Southern California will reopen its historic 100 - inch telescope later this month.

The 15 - centimetre telescope is mounted on the Chang» e 3 lander, which touched down on the lunar surface in December 2013.

This image was observed with the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) gri - band filters mounted on the Blanco 4 - meter telescope on Dec. 28, 2015, around the time when the supernova reached its peak luminosity.

A telescope, with graduated arc and vernier, is mounted on the inner ring at right angles to the plane of the ring.